Now, I am hoping I am not the only one in this community who has realized that privacy should be one of the top considerations when choosing what software to use on any device.
Leaving Reddit has been the catalyst for me to realize this, as silly as that might sound, and now I have to re-evaluate my list of “convenient” apps that are in NO WAY secure or private.
I want to ask everyone here if they have any recommendations for essentially replacement applications for all of the major categories of software that we use on our computers and mobile devices.
For example, here are some of the switches I made today: Chrome Mobile > Opera Mobile Chrome Desktop > Opera Desktop Facebook Messenger > Signal Facebook Social Media > No alternative just deleted it.
My hope with this post is that we can have a discussion on privacy apps in general as trying to track down information for each sector one by one and test each out can be arduous.
To kick off the discussion here are some other categories that I have not figured out an answer for yet:
Search Engines (duckduckgo is mentioned a lot, why?) Operating Systems Cloud Storage Email Providers Podcasts Video/Music Services (Youtube, Paid services, etc) Environment Specific advice for Android, iOS, and any others.
Also if it makes sense, should we consider privacy when choosing, say, a news website to frequent? Or would browser choice ultimately be the decider there.
Thank you for your additions to this discussion, I don’t think I knew any of those you mentioned. Kagi is very interesting to me, but I have top give it some thought as to what my actual use is for search engines. I’ve never considered there were paid services and what that might mean. The sample searches on there are awesome. 10 searches a day for 5$ isn’t bad but I don’t know how often I search. I have a feeling I am going to be referencing this post over and over again!😂